Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handful of State Police met the mob first with the butts of their rifles. They clubbed and pommeled, and were treated in turn to a shower of sticks, rocks, knife-stabs. One trooper had his eye gouged nearly out. None escaped injury. Mr. Scherf ordered a retreat to the Columbine gates, where he formed the troopers in a double...
...Without Women", Mr. Hemingway presents a collection of fourteen short stories. Their protagonists are variously toreadors, snow birds, prize fighters, and other less important people. All the tales are tense, highly nervous situations, but in writing them. Mr. Hemingway does not himself become overwrought: with fine restraint, with a knife-like humor, the author recounts the tragedies and failures of his characters. He writes in the simplest possible terms, in starling pictures, as clear and sharp as snap-shots. In the dialogue, Mr. Hemingway maintains the tempo of his stories: exciting it is, intense, profane, and idiomatic, so real...
...experimental approach took in the lives of Manet, Monet, Cezanne and still more recently in Bellows in the "Archery Party" there is a experimental study with the palette and stype of Gainsborough with due success. The figures in this scene are skillfully painted with the use of the palette knife in order to give to them their characteristic ostentatious appearance. The English scene "Punting" is mellow toned with a richness in quality in spite of the limited palette. From a difffferent point of view an experimental note can be found in the water colors of grave yard scenes. Though color...
With the aid of a knife, a big strong stick and a gun no cop could hear...
...peak. The ridge leading to the summit was completeley covered with fresh snow and the vertical southern face, hidden in clouds and snow, presented a mountaineering problem of the first order, making the climbing extremely dangerous. Further later stated that the hours spent in feeling their way along this knife ridge, and across the face of the peak, with eyes and hands frozen, were the most exciting of the whole two months...